Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

November 04, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I bought PJ Harvey's new cd on Thursday, and I have to say that it's already my favorite PJ Harvey CD (and I do have pretty much all of them). "The Mess We're In", "We Float", and "Big Exit" are all great songs, and the CD doesn't really have any bad ones. It's a bit short at only 47 minutes and change, but that's the only negative bit in a great CD.

voting

October 31, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I got another interesting piece of mail today, this time from the Hunting & Shooting Sports Heritage Foundation. They encourage me, as a hunter and gun owner, to "vote my guns."

I really don't know that I own a gun. I do support gun-owner rights, though.

maxim integrated products

October 31, 2000 by Eric Richardson

I got a catalog today from a place that I ordered something from a while back. Unfortunately, the catalog will most definitely do me no good, as I have no clue what "Dual-Band SiGe LNA+Mixer IC Has Highest IP3" is going to do for me. They do give out free samples, though.

tv

October 31, 2000 by Eric Richardson

It's not often that I watch a large block of television. Tonight I did. It started with Ghostbusters, and then continued into Action, which is definitely my favorite show at the moment. Fox cancelled it after only a couple weeks, but once again FX fills my viewing needs. After Action comes The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Another must-watch. Tonight I even stayed watching to see a little of Al Gore on The Tonight Show.

Now back to reality, which has me writing an English essay about a book I really didn't like.

fun fun

October 31, 2000 by Eric Richardson

So last night (using that tutorial I linked to) I started learning GTK/Perl stuff. I actually made decent progress on my first goal of writing an MP3 player that works how I want it to. Currently it sets up most of the GUI, and picks 20 random songs and their info out of the db. Not bad for a couple hours last night.